The continuous migration that has taken place during the last decades from the countryside to the cities has generated negative effects on agriculture and livestock production. Rural areas have seen their opportunities impoverished and their access to basic services limited. The challenge we want to achieve with this project is to encourage migration from the cities to the countryside, to promote a rural society capable of self-sufficiency in which a sustainable economy can develop
National
Spain
The modular structure of the silo allows this project to be extended to any similar structure in the rest of Europe.
Mainly rural
It refers to a physical transformation of the built environment (hard investment)
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No
As an individual in partnership with other persons
First name: Leticia Last name: Santos Bardón Gender: Female Age: 27 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
By ticking this box, I certify that the information regarding my age is factually correct. : Yes Nationality: Spain Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: C/ Río Valdellorma 5 - 3ºD Town: León Postal code: 24010 Country: Spain Direct Tel:+34 618 40 15 19 E-mail:leticiasantosbardon@gmail.com
First name: Juan Manuel Last name: Jaramillo Londoño Gender: Male Age: 26 Please attach a copy of your national ID/residence card:
By ticking this box, I certify that the information regarding my age is factually correct. : Yes Nationality: Colombia Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: C/ Río Valdellorma 5 - 3ºD Town: León Postal code: 24010 Country: Spain Direct Tel:+57 311 7527890 E-mail:juanmajarlon@gmail.com
"Nothing can be demolished, everything can (and must) be transformed" (Durot, Lacaton and Vassal).
This idea is the basis of the future of architecture. Focusing the future on the reuse and recovery of abandoned structures, to bring them back to life. Taking the past as a base, adapting them to the present and to future needs.
Silos are large structures designed to store grains or seeds. They are found all over the world, most of them deserted. This project is committed to recover these industrial ruins located mainly in rural areas, as in Mayorga (Valladolid, Spain).
Its modular structure is what defines the project. New modules are designed to adapt to the interior dimensions, market, cafeteria, laboratories, classrooms, restaurant, library and cultural space. A project focused on nature, with the presence of human beings. It provides solutions to current environmental problems, becoming a building with a positive impact, transforming the environment and involving the local community.
Rehabilitation
Rural
Biodiversity
Learning center
Modular structure
The aim is to achieve a self-sufficient building, with a positive impact, adapted to the terrain, taking advantage of the natural resources of the environment, through renewable energies such as wind generators and solar panels, and the storage of rainwater, with the maximum use of it. The working fields are circular cultivation fields, which are more sustainable, favoring a less compacted soil and greater airing. In the intermediate spaces between the fields, ponds are created to store rainwater and to be used for irrigated crops. Artificial wetlands are implemented as a natural water treatment, as an alternative solution based on nature, creating micro-ecosystems with their own identity, which favor and improve the biodiversity of the environment.
The silo has a distinguished circular architecture, which has been maintained, respecting the local traditional architecture, preserving its exterior image to be recognizable.
Is it possible to think of a non-urban society?
The pandemic period has revealed problems of habitability in contemporary cities. The urge to reconnect with nature leads us to reconsider new resilient environments, focused on the connection between people and the environment. The aim is the urban regeneration of rural environments that have been abandoned in Spain in recent years.
The continuous migration that has taken place during the last decades from the countryside to the cities has generated negative effects on agriculture and livestock production. Rural areas have seen their opportunities impoverished and their access to basic services limited. The challenge we want to achieve with this project is the inverse effect, to encourage migration from the cities to the countryside, to promote a rural society capable of self-sufficiency in which a sustainable economy can develop.
This rural school is a reflection of the needs of the surroundings, giving with this project a cultural and vocational response to the population. This learning center involves the local community, as a public building, accessible and open to the population and all visitors, bringing them closer to agriculture and rural knowledge.
Most of the work at the school takes place in the fields, so a circular cultivation system is incorporated both horizontally and vertically, allowing the production and research of crops to be carried out inside and outside the school.
The transformation of this infrastructure consists of creating a neuralgic center, working as an economic, social and cultural booster of the region. It has been converted into a rural school for new farmers, a research center, a plaza, a local marketplace, a cultural and recreational space, in addition to its original use as a grain and rainwater storage facility.
The reuse of industrial buildings in ruins, giving them a second life, as a viable and promising alternative, makes it possible to reduce costs in architecture, limiting pollution. It is connecting sustainable development with culture, since preserving a building means providing a historical and cultural legacy.
Its modular design allows the project to adapt to any place in Europe that has a similar construction, providing a solution to the human needs that are present in different contexts.
To give a second life for already built infrastructures, in order to respond to the consumers' emerging needs. Bringing the culture and learning about agriculture and livestock farming closer to rural areas, creating a powerful connection with the market. To encourage migration from the cities to the countryside, favoring small sustainable urban centers. Create a research center in rural areas, to study potential species capable of adapting to new environments. All this with the current technological advances.
